To implement a standard RS232 interface over a IRDA link is simple.
Although this means that you will drop all tha nasty SW layers associated
with IRDA, but if you don't care,...

Use the following setup:

PIC <---> TOIM3232 <--->TFDS3000

Both circuits from Temic.

Haavard.

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At 23:29 07.05.98 PDT, you wrote:
>    IrDA has to be implemented in a Stack (See OSI) IrLAP(Link Access
protocol
>    handles most of the difficulties)- THen there is IrLMP which handles the
>    connections. It can be very thin, but the trickiest part is that IrDA
>    pulses are 3/16th of the regular USART signals. I can help you some.
>
>It's always seemed to me (looking at it casually from far away) that it
>ought to be trivial to convert a software bit-banging serial routine to the
>shorter pulses of IRDA.  Yes?  No?  I guess it would take a 16/3 faster
>processor or 16/3 more cycles, maybe (worst case?)
>
>BillW
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